Speakers
Alvin Toffler
Writer and former associate editor of Fortune magazine, Alvin Toffler literally invented the role of the futurist with the publication of his seminal work, Future Shock—creating an all-new discipline around the study of change and its impact on business and culture.
Throughout his long career, Toffler has remained one of the world's most prescient, insightful and influential voices in business and intellectual life. Time magazine wrote that he has “set the standard by which all subsequent would-be futurists have been measured.”
What makes Toffler so extraordinary is that he asks questions nobody else has thought of and then answers them by fundamentally redefining things in ways that keep making sense as the future unfolds. He's created several lasting thought paradigms—new frameworks for understanding ourselves and the way we change—that offer invaluable strategic advantage to those who are paying attention. And he pegs these frameworks with predictions and insights that consistently verify that his sense of direction is right on. Now he's doing it again with his new book, Revolutionary Wealth, which has been 10 years in the writing.
In addition to Revolutionary Wealth and Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi (his wife and intellectual partner of 51 years) are the authors of The Third Wave, Powershift and War and Anti-War.
